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I really enjoyed this article [“Buried Alive,” WW, Aug. 15, 2012]. I was in Rockaday Ritchie and the Queen of the Hop and had a great time with the crew playing a traveling salesman who gets murdered while sleeping in his car.

I still remember
getting yanked out of that car by a rope when I was being shot. When the
camera was on the driver’s side, I could land on a mattress. When they
moved around to the passenger side, I had to land in the gravel.

—“Larry Hatch”

Go Don [Gronquist]! I’m glad to see he is getting some recognition as a local film pioneer. His film The Devil’s Keep is a fun one to see, mostly in terms of creative use of Portland set locations.

—“borgbike”

Oh that brought back some memories of being new to town,
and the only “film industry” was the porno movies and some of my arty
pals making movies in their houses. We were actually having fun doing
the work. Great article!

Hypalon-like covers
would bring our reservoirs into compliance with the Long Term 2 Surface
Water Treatment Rule without destruction of the reservoirs, and the cost
should be a fraction of the costs of new covered reservoirs. The
revision of this EPA rule (under way by presidential order) may save our
reservoirs and pocket books, but we only reap the benefits of this rule
revision if we have not destroyed the reservoirs and spent the money in
the budget for building new ones.

I
urge Mayor Adams and Commissioners Leonard, Fish and Saltzman to
support changing the city’s LT2 compliance strategy, as outlined by
Commissioner Fritz.

This could save an
estimated $138 million, protect recent $40 million ratepayer investment
in open reservoir upgrades (still unpaid), and retain more water-storage
capacity than buried reservoirs.

The headline of this
article is stupid. There is no reason to believe these officials don’t
“dare” to send their badges back. They just chose to protest in other
ways, which is perfectly reasonable.

—“Mike”

What’s wrong with an organization having rules of
exclusion or its own views that differ from yours? What’s next, the Girl
Scouts are a hate group because they won’t let little Jonny in because
he is a male?

—“inhillsboro”

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